@strawb3rrykream - Risa may be a closet perv but she can't exact say any of that stuff to Eri
...well maybe not for now
@JFC - ROFL
Great mental note!
@ShikyoxYaiba - I can't draw penguins so I'm leaving that to you
@ringo-hime - I don't know if I should be happy that someone's willing to stalk me...
@hotohori - Fingers crossed!
@anuskyna - Thanks!
@kawaii beam -
It was fun to write the tiger part... in fact it's fun to write the whole story!
@Amarghetta - How much?
@wings4dreams - More like sly turtle, nee?
@ShikyoxYaiba -
I listened to that! After Risa said what the song meant and they joked about "Koe" etc and Eri said something like "We're both girls, what should we do"
There's many things you can do...
69 for example We're both girls is always the excuse
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Day Five
I could feel my heart racing as I got out of the car. I was going to Eri’s house to have a water fight with her family. I wonder if she’s told her family…If she has I wonder how they’ve taken it. Well, I suppose if she’s told them and I’m coming around then they must have taken it well. I turned back to the car.
“Bye Mum, have a safe trip,” I said. She smiled.
“I will. I’ll try and be back in three days time, okay?”
I nodded.
“Have fun!” she said. I waved to her before walking towards Eri’s house. I took a deep breath before opening up the gate and walking in. After ringing the doorbell, I was greeted by Eri’s younger sister.
“Ahh, Niigaki-san, ohayo gozaimasu.”
“Ohayo,” I replied. “I thought that you were ill,” I said, noticing the smile she was wearing.
“I was, but I’m completely fine now.”
“That was quick.”
“I know, I guess I’m lucky.”
I smirked. She was excited about the water fight. Once inside I took off my shoes and took my bag up with me to Eri’s room. I knocked on the door. Didn’t want any blood on the floor, right?
“Eri?”
“Come in.”
I opened her door and was given the pleasant sight of Eri in a striped bikini.
“Y-You look nice,” I complimented.
“Really? That’s good. I wore this because I knew that you would like it,” she said. If my face wasn’t red yet, then it definitely was now.
“You can get changed in here while I go and prepare the weapons. Come to the garden once you’re done changing, okay?”
I nodded and replied, “Okay.”
Eri flashed me a smile before leaving and closing the door behind her. I put my bag down on her bed, and took out my own bikini. Mine was a blue designed with white flowers. I changed out of my day clothes and into the bikini. I folded my clothes and put them into my bag, then headed downstairs. It felt embarrassing to be walking around someone else’s home in just a bikini. I passed by the kitchen and saw Eri’s mum.
“Ohayo gozaimasu, Kamei-san,” I greeted shyly.
“Ohayo gozaimasu, Risa-chan. That’s a very pretty bikini you’re wearing,” she complimented.
“Thank-you.”
Her eyes suddenly took on a serious expression.
“Eri-chan told us about you two.”
I held my breath.
“To be honest we were surprised at first but when I though about your history together I guess that it made sense. If that’s what you two decided, if that’s what makes you happy, then we support you all the way. After all, Risa-chan is like another member of the family, so we trust you,” she said, her eyes softening when she finished. I swear I was about to scream out with joy.
“Thank-you,” I said, “You have no idea how much that means to me.”
“Not as much as Eri-chan, nee?” she teased. I felt my face heat up.
“U-Uhh w-well,” I stammered. She let out a laugh.
“I’m joking,” she said, pulling me into a hug. “But really, good luck.”
“Thank-you.” I hugged her back.
“Ahh! Oka-san!” Eri’s voice suddenly exclaimed. Detaching myself from Eri’s mum I looked at Eri.
“I’m sorry, Eri-chan, her cuteness caught me.” Eri’s mum stuck out her tongue. “But I shouldn’t have hugged her. That’s your job.”
Both Eri and I blushed at the remark. Again, Eri’s mum let out a small laugh.
“Go on and play outside, have fun,” she instructed.
“We will!” Eri acknowledged. Grabbing my hand, Eri began to drag me to the garden.
She’s so soft and warm.“Are you ready for the water fight?” she asked me, stopping at the pool side.
“As ready as I’ll ever be.”
“Good.”
I let out a scream when she suddenly pushed me into the pool. I felt the water envelope me. I stayed under the water, keeping my feet on the bottom of the pool. Looking through the water for only a moment I could see Eri bending over the pool. She was beginning to worry. I pushed off the bottom of the pool and resurfaced. Eri let out a scream before I grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her back into the water with me. We both remerged to the surface. Eri quickly swam her way back to the edge of the pool and climbed out. I laughed.
“Looks like you weren’t ready,” I joked.
“I was, but not for that!” she whined, defending herself. I swam my way over to the side and was given a helping hand out.
“When will they get out here?” Eri moaned, referring to her little sister and older brother.
The more the merrier, right? Plus this could be my chance to prove myself to her family. She began to mumble about her siblings again, but I couldn’t pay attention. Was the bikini strap moving?
“Maybe we should just start without them. A few water balloons won’t matt-“
She stopped immediately when my hands shot around her neck. I stepped closer to her, our faces less than 15 cm apart.
“R-Risa-chan?”
I grabbed the two pieces of lose material behind Eri’s neck and began to tie it back up. I made sure to double tie the knot before removing my hands and smiling at her.
“You should be careful. Make sure you tie the knot properly, okay?” I advised in a quiet voice. Her face was so close that I could feel her breath. If I l just leaned forward I could kiss her. Suddenly, I spotted Eri’s younger sister hiding behind a wall of the house.
“Are you ready?” I asked. She jumped in shock. Eri turned around.
“A-Are you ready?” Eri asked, repeating me but her voice shaking.
Her sister nodded shyly. Eri backed away from me.
“Is onii-chan ready yet?” she asked.
“Of course, I’ve been ready all this time.” Eri’s brother appeared wearing Hawaiian themed swimming trunks. Eri pouted.
“Well why didn’t you come down earlier?!”
“Because I watching you two play.”
My face flushed and Eri fell silent. The silence was quickly broken by one of her high pitch screams and the sound of water splashing. Eri’s brother laughed when he saw his sister’s reaction to being hit by a water balloon.
“I’m so going to get you!” she exclaimed. She ran over to the pool side, grabbed a barrage of balloons and began pummelling them at her brother.
Further into the fight we had decided to split up into teams; Eri and her sister against me and her brother. The objective was for him to get to me at the pool side without getting hit by a water balloon which would be thrown by the opposing teams who were hiding about the garden. He dashed from the starting point, the opposite side of the garden from the pool, and skilfully began to dodge water balloons that were heading straight for him.
“Hit him!” Eri ordered.
“I’m trying! He’s too fast!”
“Hit him!”
Soon he was barely 10 metres away from me. A balloon shot past his face, just missing. Surprised, he stumbled causing his feet to slip on the slippery pool side surface. He crashed into me, sending both of us flying into the pool. I felt his face buried in my chest. Once in the water I quickly distanced myself from him and shot back up. Surfacing, the first thing I saw was Eri wearing an expression of disbelief on her face. When her brother came up the expression seemed to change to one of…anger?
“Onii-chan, you pervert!” she yelled at him, before pounding him with several balloons. After sinking back down into the pool, Eri rushed over to me.
“Are you okay?” she asked.
“I’m fine,” I replied. Eri helped me out of the pool while her sister helped her brother.
“Onii-chan, apologise to Risa-chan!”
Her brother coughed a few times before facing me.
“Sorry about that, I slipped at the end there,” he apologised.
“Ahh, don’t worry, it was just an accident,” I said.
He turned to Eri.
“That’s right, it was just an accident, so calm down, okay?” he calmly said but with a smirk.
“But you’re smiling!”
“What, I’m not allowed to smile?”
“Pervert!”
“Hey, I’m not the one who looks through-“
“Onii-chan!”
Eri glared embarrassedly at her brother before turning to me.
“I’m starting to get cold, can we go inside, Risa-chan?” she asked.
“Well, I don’t mind. I don’t want you to catch a cold,” I replied. Eri smiled. Linking our arms, Eri began to lead us back to the house. I turned my head to look back.
“Onii-chan, you shouldn’t make her all jealous like that.”
“Sorry.”
Looking up, he smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up. I gave him a confused but grateful smile. Eri’s younger sister seemed to be hanging her head shyly. When she looked at me a blush appeared on her face and she immediately hung her head again. I wonder what’s wrong with her…
After much insistence that I have a shower first from Eri, I did so quickly and got dressed. I sat in her room and waited for Eri to come back from her own shower. Since I wasn’t doing anything sitting around, I decided to go look for Eri’s younger sister. I saw her sitting in her room, reading. Gazing up, she saw me.
“Can I talk to you for a minute?” I asked. She nodded and closed her book.
I walked into her room and closed the door behind me. I sat down next to her on her bed.
“Is there something bothering you?” I asked. She looked at me for several moments before nodding.
“Can you tell me?”
“I don’t know if I want to,” she informed me.
“Well, you don’t know until you try, right?”
She turned her gaze away from me.
“…It’s about you and Eri-chan,” she stated. I felt the gears in my head click into place.
“Oh. What about us?” I gently asked.
“…You’re not going to steal her away, are you?”
“Of course not; I would never steal her away.”
“It’s not that I don’t trust you, Niigaki-san, in fact I think of you as an older sister. But I’m just scared that you’re going to steal Eri-chan away,” she explained, whimpering. “I don’t want Eri-chan to go.”
I wrapped my arms around her and began to stroke her hair in a calming motion.
“Eri’s not going anywhere. I don’t want to steal her away from anybody, I just want her to be happy,” I said. She let out a small laugh.
“Sometimes I wonder if she deserves someone like you.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I deserve someone like her.”
We both smiled at each other.
“Can I ask why whenever I looked at you, you would blush?”
She moved herself out of my embrace and stood up.
“I-I’m still trying to adjust to seeing two girls together, like
that,” she explained.
“Oh.”
“By the way, do you know what onii-chan was talking about earlier before Eri-chan cut him off?” she asked, suddenly changing the subject.
“Now that you mention it, not really…”
“Well, I’m sure if you look around Eri-chan’s room you’ll find an answer,” she hinted. I stood up and opened the door.
“I’ll keep that in mind,” I said.
I closed the door behind me and headed back to Eri’s room. I sat down on her bed and waited for a couple of minutes before my curiosity over came me. Searching time. Part of me felt guilty that I was rummaging through her stuff but I still wanted to find out what she looked through. I began with the most obvious place, her desk. It’s not as easy as it sounds. There was stuff everywhere. I gave up on the desk after thirty seconds and continued onto other places. I looked around the room. My gaze stopped on her bed, and something mysterious sticking out from under mattress. I pulled on the corner of what was sticking out and brought it out. It was my photo book Happy Girl. I smiled. She’s got mine, I’ve got hers; it all works out. I slid the book back under the mattress and plopped myself back onto Eri’s bed. Eri entered the room not even a minute later.
“You seem happy,” she said, noticing my smile.
“Well that’s because I’m a happy girl.”
We listened to music, played games and chatted until I had to go. I didn’t want to overstay my welcome.
“Do you want me to walk with you to the bus stop?” Eri offered. I shook my head.
“It’s okay, you’ve already done enough for me today,” I refused. “I’ll call you tonight.”
She nodded her head happily. “I’ll be waiting.”
I gathered my things and put on my shoes.
“It’s the end of day five, huh?” she said.
“The days are over before I realise that they’ve begun.”
“I know what you mean.”
I stood up with my things.
“I guess this is goodnight?”
“I guess it is, even though it’s only the evening,” she commented. I leant over and kissed her on her cheek. She smiled at me and then kissed me on my cheek. I walked out of the house and waved to Eri who was standing at the door. When she disappeared out of sight and I heard the sound of the door closing, I ran to the end of the street. I stopped, looked up to the sky and whispered to myself, “Today was amazing.”